Re: [Mingw-users] rename libpdcurses to libcurses?

On 9/9/2012 3:10 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> There's more than one aspect:
>
> a) console2 hasn't been updated for about two years, and that was
> a development snapshot (equivalent to my weekly patches for
> ncurses). Its last stable release was 7 years ago. Based on that,
> it's rather unlikely that there will be any relevant fixes by its
> developers.
Don't confuse *our* most recent package with *their* most recent
package. They have b148 which was released...last October, so 11 months
ago. We are currently advertising b147, which is, yes, two years old.
I should probably bump our package, huh?
However, your point is still well-taken: there have not been any git
commits since that release last October. Development seems very bursty:
nothing for a year, then Bang! a new release committed to git and
published immediately. No telling when the next burst will occur.
There are a bunch of open bugs, a bunch of open support requests -- but
the project is not completely dead as /somebody/ has marked some recent
bugs as invalid or closed.
If ncurses won't work in console2 -- BUT we can advertise a
console-handle-based [1] console replacement in which it DOES work --
then all is well. I'd be especially impressed if ncurses-win32 ALSO
works in msys-mintty, but I rather doubt that (unless it has a fallback
to AVOID WriteConsoleOutput[A,W] when stdin/stdout are NOT console handles).
It appears that conemu MAY be a way forward, but obviously there are
some code bugs and packaging kinks to work out first.
[1] as opposed to cygwin-like pseudotty's, which are used by rxvt
(blech, puke) and mintty.
--
Chuck